Passing Interest

Preface: The "Posts" of Passing
Gayle Wald

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The (Not So) New Face of America
Julie Cary Nerad

2. On the Margins of Movement: Passing in Three Contemporary Memoirs
Irina Negrea

3. "A Cousin to Blackness": Race and Identity in Bliss Broyard's One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life
Lynn Washington and Julie Cary Nerad

4. Can One Really Choose? Passing and Self-Identification at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Jené Schoenfeld

5. Passing in Blackface: The Intimate Drama of Post-Racialism on Black. White.
Eden Osucha

6. Broke Right in Half: Passing of/in Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone
Julie Cary Nerad

7. Passing for Chicano, Passing for White: Negotiating Filipino American Identity in Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son
Amanda Page

8. Race in the Marketplace: Postmodern Passing and Ali G
Ana Cristina Mendes

9. Passing for Black, White, and Jewish: Mixed-Race Identity in Rebecca Walker and Danzy Senna
Lori Harrison-Kahan

10. Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street, Racial Passing/Performativity, and Film Blackness
Michael B. Gillespie

11. Consuming Performances: Race, Media, and the Failure of the Cultural Mulatto in Bamboozled and Erasure
Meredith McCarroll

Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index